www.washingtontimes.com Topics: Simón Bolívarhttp://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/simon-bolivar/?utm_medium=RSSwww.washingtontimes.com Topics: Simón Bolívaren-usThu, 12 Mar 2015 07:54:57 -0400Epic Spanish-language &lsquo;Liberator&rsquo; leads new movies on videohttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/mar/12/epic-spanish-language-lsquoliberatorrsquo-leads-ne/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p><img height="1" width="1" src="http://beacon.deseretconnect.com/beacon.gif?cid=262511&amp;pid=62" data-storyid="133815" data-publisherid="62" />&ldquo;The Liberator,&rdquo; a Venezuelan-Spanish co-production, leads these new movies on DVD and Blu-ray this week.</p><p><b>&ldquo;The Liberator&rdquo; </b>(Cohen/Blu-ray/DVD, 2014, not rated, in Spanish with English subtitles, introduction by composer Gustavo Dudamel, featurette, trailer). This biographical film about the 19th-century Latin American champion Simon Bolivar is ...Chris HicksThu, 12 Mar 2015 07:54:57 -0400http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/mar/12/epic-spanish-language-lsquoliberatorrsquo-leads-ne/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSBOOK REVIEW: 'Bolivar'http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/apr/29/book-review-bolivar/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>BOLIVAR: AMERICAN LIBERATOR<br />By Marie Arana<br />Simon &amp; Schuster, $35, 603 pages</p> <p>A time-honored cliche of historians is to refer to Simon Bolivar as the "George Washington of Latin America." To be sure, the 19th-century patriot was instrumental in the nationalist uprising that drove Spanish colonialism off the continent. With ...Joseph C. Goulden - Special to The Washington TimesMon, 29 Apr 2013 10:27:06 -0400http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/apr/29/book-review-bolivar/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSBOOK REVIEW: Recalling Bolivar's unlikely allieshttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/aug/31/recalling-bolivars-unlikely-allies/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>CONQUER OR DIE: WELLINGTON'S VETERANS AND THE LIBERATION OF THE NEW WORLD<br /><strong>By Ben Hughes<br /></strong>Osprey Publishing, $25.95, 392 pages</p> <p>This is a blood-and-thunder tale about a little-known aspect of Simon Bolivar's fight for the independence of Venezuela and Colombia from the Spanish crown. It ascribes a significant role to ...David C. AchesonTue, 31 Aug 2010 17:52:05 -0400http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/aug/31/recalling-bolivars-unlikely-allies/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSA second Falklands?http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2007/jun/8/a-second-falklands/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p> When Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands in April 1982 and ignited the Falklands War with Great Britain, many commentators saw the conflict as something of a quaint historical anomaly, a "throwback" campaign reminiscent of 19th century "petty scrapes" imperial Britain engaged in when the sun never set on its ...Fri, 08 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0400http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2007/jun/8/a-second-falklands/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS